Sapphire Pure Platinum A85XT Motherboard

Sapphire has released a new motherboard called the “Pure Platnium A85XT”. It is a full ATX motherboard that supports AMD APU A10/A8/A6/ and A4 series Trinity processors using the FM2 socket. It also includes A85X chipset features such as USB3.0, SATA 6G, PCI-Express expansion and more.

“SAPPHIRE is very excited about the launch of the Trinity platform and the new architecture it introduces,” said Adrian Thompson, SAPPHIRE VP of Marketing. “We will shortly be adding a new product to our Edge mini-PC range to take advantage of the new performances levels Trinity brings.”

The layout and color design of this new motherboard looks very slick. Blue and black colors that can match almost any case you install it in and enough rear I/O ports for all your needs. The board comes with 7 SATA III 6Gb/s ports that feature AHCI and RAID support and 4 dual channel memory sockets providing up to 32GB of DDR3 memory. Plug in a few hard drives with a SSD as the boot drive and this will be one great build for any computer fanatic. There are 4 USB 3.0 ports, 8 USB 2.0 ports, and one Gigabit Ethernet LAN port with integrated Bluetooth. The rear panel carries optical SPDIF output as well as the standard I/O configuration for the on board 8-channel HD 7.1 Audio. They have also included one Dual-Link DVI port, one HDMI port and one VGA port.

In terms of graphics this motherboard can support both AMD CrossFire or AMD Dual Graphics with two PCI-Express Gen 2.0 X16 slots. There is also one PCI-Express 2.0 x4 slot, two PCI-Expiress 2.0 x1 slots, two PCI Slots, and one Mini PCI-E x1 (or mSATA) connector.

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Sapphire Pure Platinum A85XT Motherboard